It's the Ber Months!

With it now being Balrog Bashing Month, we are now at the start of what is celebrated as the Ber Months!


Only some of my local bargain stores have their Christmas and Halloween stock out already;
plus one supermarket is selling bedsheets with a Sonic the Hedgehog-themed Halloween design, I bought that as a blanket barricade to go over my couch (I need to stop my cats getting where they shouldn't! LOL) - I already have that UK flag bedsheet. But there is no doubt, that more shops will soon start on their own Halloween stock - one shop is planning to sell vampire-shaped crumpets, this year...

And does anyone remember those cute 'fighting' pens (mom put a pair of these in the Pass The Parcel game, by the way, at my 18th birthday party)? One shop is selling these in the designs of a skeleton, a pumpkin and a Frankenstein - I bought all three!

As if that's not enough, Roy's shop had a Halloween Donald (from the Kingdom Hearts series) Funko in stock - I snapped him up right away, he'd make a brilliant Halloween decoration!


But indeed, this also means that we are not too far off from Deadeye Month - if not Spanish Deadeye Month, named moreso for the Spanish (himself, a Christmas present, and for the prototype for the Street Fighter mandate no less) rather than my person. We especially need to prep in case Santa Claude comes to town, even more so when we begin prayers to him on Yoshimoto's birthday November 13.

Chatot

Mew

And in case anyone asks, I have checked - no, the music channels haven't started on the Christmas music videos yet. I think they usually start in Hsien-Ko Month?

After the Halloween celebrations then it will be the long awaited Christmas ones

Jaden wrote:

After the Halloween celebrations then it will be the long awaited Christmas ones

Yep

I usually check in mid to late Hsien-Ko Month, usually around Van Damme's birthday October 18 at the earliest, if I am to have airings just after Halloween. If so, then yes the Resident Evil zombies would join our Halloween decorations - I don't have any other Capcom undead, sorry...

We have to be patient because the music will start soon!

Biyomon wrote:

We have to be patient because the music will start soon!

Amen, sister!

Good Ol Roy. His shop is always reliable

Raven wrote:

Good Ol Roy. His shop is always reliable

You're telling me! Roy actually messaged me today, about a Street Fighter arcade cabinet in another of his shops - sadly I doubt I could afford it, but given the chance I'd certainly play it in store. His local shop is selling multi-game arcade sticks, with the Street Fighter: The Movie and arcade games on them, and yes I've certainly had a few rounds myself - I even took snaps from the Street Fighter: The Movie game, so Gran and I can discuss which ones (including Cammy and, yes, :jay: ) I can have printed for the Street Fighter mandate...


And with your love of goth things, I'm guessing you will be preparing for Halloween? Heck, I thought of you the other week - I saw that Teen Titans Go episode which finishes with a parody of The Monster Mash, including your namesake transformed into an actual raven!

Altaria

And I also realise, about Balrog Bashing Month being spider season. Has anyone had to kill any of these eight-legged freaks?


Well... with Tango sharing her real name with a famous fictional spider (very ironic indeed, I know, since Tango mains our beloved arachnophobe Ryu!), I certainly made a few jokes when I killed a couple of spiders today - as well as, naturally to say my family had been in Tango's web of lies these last few years.

One of the spiders I killed today was unreachable behind a cabinet in my games room last night, so I became afraid to go to sleep until around one in the morning, by the time I hadn't seen the spider emerge from its hole for an hour or so. But I saw it this morning, and squished it, so yes I notified my parents (when I saw the spider last night, I texted my mom about the panic) - but no sooner had mom replied to my message, than another one emerged in my living room, from behind the wooden cabinet on which my TV is positioned! That one had to go, too!

There are spiders year round

Gin wrote:

There are spiders year round

Yes, but even my mom will tell you, Balrog Bashing Month is spider season...

I don't really like spiders

[quote="
Neo Senshi"
]I don't really like spiders[/quote

Neither does Ryu, according to Capcom! Apparently, one crawled into his mouth one time when he was sleeping :victory: - so because of the irony regarding Tango, I'll admit I did consider asking a Question the Fighters to dear old Ryu, about such a dishonourable person who shares her real name with a spider maining him...


I do have plenty of games where you can kill spiders, no promises if I can complete any of them for my airing next week (or any more this month, for that matter) - but if, hypothetically, I have any airings next month, and/or if Halloween falls during an airing celebration... well, with Hsien-Ko Month being all about the supernatural and spiders and all that, well I may have a few tricks and treats up my sleeve...

Neo Senshi wrote:

I don't really like spiders

Neither does Ryu, according to Capcom! Apparently, one crawled into his mouth one time when he was sleeping :victory: - so because of the irony regarding Tango, I'll admit I did consider asking a Question the Fighters to dear old Ryu, about such a dishonourable person who shares her real name with a spider maining him...


I do have plenty of games where you can kill spiders, no promises if I can complete any of them for my airing next week (or any more this month, for that matter) - but if, hypothetically, I have any airings next month, and/or if Halloween falls during an airing celebration... well, with Hsien-Ko Month being all about the supernatural and spiders and all that, well I may have a few tricks and treats up my sleeve...

That would be so gross to wake up with a spider in your mouth

Raven wrote:

That would be so gross to wake up with a spider in your mouth

Ryu: "
That's my line, Miss Raven!"


(apologies for the double post earlier, btw - I accidentally did that, when I meant to edit that I accidentally cut off quoting Neo Senshi. I thought I'd edited, but I instead double posted - oops!)


There was a big one in my games room last night, too - and it scuttled into a small hole, where I cannot reach it. I hope it went away, or I can catch it?

Dad was a little insensitive, when I asked him to come over and sort it out - being a gadget man in my family, I thought that maybe, like, he had one of those mini-vacuums or something? I know it's spider season, but for god's sake a little compassion (which he did soon show, thankfully...) never hurt anyone - why do you think I have such stringent measures, as the Street Fighter mandate and the Rainbow Bridge airing security...

Raven wrote:

That would be so gross to wake up with a spider in your mouth

I would turn them to stone for you

White Knight wrote:

Raven wrote:

That would be so gross to wake up with a spider in your mouth

I would turn them to stone for you

then get the other Koopa Kids to smash the statues

Raven wrote:

That would be so gross to wake up with a spider in your mouth

I would have so many nightmares about that

Biyomon wrote:

Raven wrote:

That would be so gross to wake up with a spider in your mouth

I would have so many nightmares about that

I bet! Though not as many as Ryu would have, again because he is himself arachnophobic. So any modders among you may wish to think twice, before modding Ryu into the Resident Evil REmakes :lol:

Mew

These ber months seem to have been very good too